ABSTRACT
The Arab citizens’ status in the state of Israel demands clarification both in respect of definition of terms and by a review of issues arising out of a chronological sequence of events. The phrase Arab media’ also requires definition for the parameters of the discussion in this article. The main intention of this article is to deal not only with continuity and change within a certain sector of a given society, but also to try to analyse how this continuity and change have been perceived by the Arab media, over a period of about 50 years (since 1948). The lines of these two main strands of discussion are not necessarily parallel. Most of the insights from the media are retrospective, and the Arab media itself has gone through tremendous changes in various respects.
